Gesture Conference Programme
Saturday 15 September
- 9.30 am
Registration - 10.00 am Panel 1
Leslie Brubaker, Birmingham: 'Gesture in Byzantium'
Philippe Depreux, Limoges: 'Gesture at the Carolingian court between practice and perception'
Peter Coss, Cardiff: 'Gesture and judgement' - 11.30 am
Coffee - 12.00 pm Panel 2
Miri Rubin, London: 'Gestures of pain, implications of guilt: Mary and the Jews'
John Walter, Essex: 'Gesturing at authority: deciphering the gestural code in early modern England'
Jim Sweet, Wisconsin: 'Gesture, gender, and healing in the African-Portuguese world, 1550-1750' - 1.30 pm
Lunch - 2.30 pm Panel 3
Karin Sennefelt, Uppsala: 'The politics of hanging around and tagging along: everyday practices of politics in eighteenth-century Stockholm'
Colin Jones, London: 'Meeting and greeting in late eighteenth-century Paris'
Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus: 'Manners in the Age of Revolution: A Transatlantic comparison' - 4.00 pm
Coffee - 4.15 pm
Plenary lecture
Richard Handler, 'Where the Action Is, and Isn't: Erving Goffman and the Gestural Dynamics of Modern Selfhood' - 5.15 pm
Session ends - 7.30 pm
Conference dinner
Sunday 16 September
- 9.30 am Panel 4
David Arnold, Warwick: 'Salutation and subversion: the gestural politics of nineteenth-century India'
James Hevia, Chicago: '"The ultimate gesture of deference and debasement": Kowtowing in China'
Stephan Feuchtwang, 'Gestures of suffering and their politics: an example from Taiwan' - 11.00 am
Coffee - 11.30 am Panel 5
Mary Vincent, Sheffield: 'Expiation as performative rhetoric in national-Catholicism'
Bill Chafe, Duke: 'Politics in post-world war II America: the politics of gesture writ large'
Mary Fulbrook, London: 'Embodying the self: social status in the twentieth-century German dictatorships' - 1 pm
Round table - 1.30 pm
lunch